Architecture against domestic violence: how design heals and protects battered women
Li, Xing (2021)
2021
Arkkitehdin tutkinto-ohjelma - Master's Programme in Architecture
Rakennetun ympäristön tiedekunta - Faculty of Built Environment
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2021-11-24
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:tuni-202111038146
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:tuni-202111038146
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As an indispensable part of the social security system, domestic violence shelters should and must serve as a net that can firmly catch women when they are most helpless, but in the process of China's extensive economic development, women shelters are also established in a simple and rude way, which has little positive effects on female who are struggle to live. Is the women shelter just a temporary place to stay? This thesis discusses how to provide a warm and dignified space for these battered women in the Chinese context to achieve a gradual recovery of the body, spirit and soul.
This project explores how shelters can increase the sense of belonging of battered women and their next generation from an urban environment, and also discusses what a shelter can bring to the surrounding, especially for women and children who left the shelter but still suffer psychologically and physically. After doing literature researches and understanding of the current Chinese situation, the corresponding goals and principles were formulated, and on this basis, the optimal site location was selected and a multi-functional comprehensive project combining a shelter, learning and consultation center, a exercise center and exhibitions was established. The project is not only open to the battered women who live in it, but also as a public building that provides services for the women who have already moved out and these women and children from surrounding to promote communication between each other and achieve the healing of women in the process of appropriate mutual contact.
In addition, in terms of architectural form, the main goal is to integrate with Beijing's special architectural environment which is tradition and modernity coexist. Inspired by the surrounding traditional street form --- “Hutong” and integrated into this project, achieving the integration of form and content with the local area.
As an architect, we cannot directly change the social welfare system, but as a female architect, I have the responsibility and hope that with the help of research on domestic violence shelters, we can arouse people’s more focus of battered women and the better environments of women shelters.
This project explores how shelters can increase the sense of belonging of battered women and their next generation from an urban environment, and also discusses what a shelter can bring to the surrounding, especially for women and children who left the shelter but still suffer psychologically and physically. After doing literature researches and understanding of the current Chinese situation, the corresponding goals and principles were formulated, and on this basis, the optimal site location was selected and a multi-functional comprehensive project combining a shelter, learning and consultation center, a exercise center and exhibitions was established. The project is not only open to the battered women who live in it, but also as a public building that provides services for the women who have already moved out and these women and children from surrounding to promote communication between each other and achieve the healing of women in the process of appropriate mutual contact.
In addition, in terms of architectural form, the main goal is to integrate with Beijing's special architectural environment which is tradition and modernity coexist. Inspired by the surrounding traditional street form --- “Hutong” and integrated into this project, achieving the integration of form and content with the local area.
As an architect, we cannot directly change the social welfare system, but as a female architect, I have the responsibility and hope that with the help of research on domestic violence shelters, we can arouse people’s more focus of battered women and the better environments of women shelters.